Bitcoin Forum

Why most of the peoples in bitcoin talk have fake user names?

Most people,like myself don't want our forum accounts to be linked to our identities in real life. After all, one of the main functions of the whole bitcoin thing is to have anonymous transactions. I'm pretty sure that you'll make enemies here on the forum and in the crypto world, its not a very good idea to have them knowing your full name.

There is no obligation to use your "real name" here. Someone might use his/her lover name, their cats or favorite animal names, or any other names that they believe have some deep personal connection with it. Or, they're just randomly generating it.

most time the name you intend to use have being taken by another user, you dont have other than to change your name. sometimes dey are not really fake names but nicknames

I think everyone here is free to choose  the username who want but the members of bitcointalk who have a fake username does not want anyone to discover these true identities

Who's got a fake name. Everybody calls me A. Flash Cunt. I don't like to tell people what the 'A' stands for.

When signing up on bitcointalk and other forums users are requested to create username, they don't need to reveal their name and surname. Username by itself can't be fake.
Mostly people here prefer to stay anonymous here and don't reveal their real identity. Personally, I don't see any reasons why I would need to use my name and surname on Bitcointalk.
But there are more or less users who are posting here with their real names, well, that's their choice.

I think username is similar to "fake name")

It is very obvious my friend, we are dealing with cryptocurrencies and the first rule is to be discreet about who are you, where you live and how much you have. Anyway, my real name is so common that it would not make any difference.

Even if people would want to give their real names, they couldn't. Upon registration, you can give your name. But have you ever thought about the fact that there are people with the same name all over the world? Just google your name and you might be surprised. So why bother in the first place...

How can username be fake? Its always authentic you are free to choose certain nickname. Why would i tell you my name?

I did not think the forum was necessary when I logged in, so I chose a name that was a joke, but I decided to login in using my name "start real projects."
The problem is that you can not change the username and you will lose your rank if you register from a second account, so most of the names here are not real except for those who knew the importance of this forum before logging in.
More important is the information you will receive and not who will say it

people use their fake name on this forum because there have no rules about the username.This forum has many rules about post or comment and create any thread and project advertise but anyone can choose their username. Most of the country ban bitcoin but people use bitcoin hide their identyfy so i think this the best system that people hide their name

Simply that is their choice. And sometimes we can't take the name what we want. It has been taken by another member already. In that case we have to use any name that we are allowed to use.

What do you mean by saying ''fake username'' I have not seen any people using his own name as a username and username is actually not the name, better if they are fake in bitcointalk  :)

Anonymity is a great thing. One of the power decentralization and cryptocurrency has given us.